International cooperation and assistance in the management of the criminal justice system: computerization of criminal justice operations and the development, analysis and policy use of crime and criminal justice information.

Urges Member States, governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and the private sector to assist the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the institutes comprising UN crime prevention and criminal justice programme network; requests the Secretary-General, in concert with experts from interested States and the institutes comprising UN crime prevention and criminal justice programme network, to conduct, using existing resources of the regular budget of UN, a survey of national capacities for the collection of crime statistics, as a supplement to the 5th UN Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems, using as a draft guide the form annexed to the present resolution; calls on Member States to contribute to the survey of national capacities by providing the necessary information in a timely manner.

Adopted without vote, 45th meeting

Adopted at the 45th plenary meeting, 23 July 1996.
"Annex: Form for the survey of national capacities for the collection of data on crime prevention and criminal justice": p.33-34.
In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 1996, New York, 25 Jan. and 6-9 Feb. 1996; resumed organizational session for 1996, New York, 2 Apr. and 2-3 May 1996; substantive session of 1996, New York, 24 June-26 July 1996; resumed substantive session of 1996, New York, 10 Oct. and 13-14 and 20 Nov. 1996 - E/1996/96 - p. 31-34 - (ESCOR, 1996, Suppl. no. 1).